Serendipity 3 at East 60th Street, house of the world renown frozen hot chocolate, celebrates its fifty fifth anniversary by creating World’s Largest Hot Chocolate on January 4th, 2010. The Monday morning chocolate cup by Serendipity 3 is a world record.
Serendipity 3 is also known for this sumptuous treats: A La Garden of Allah is sautéed chicken breast topped with chilled cucumbers, ripe tomatoes, fresh basil and black olives at $19.50, Steak Char Char is sliced Roumanian Steak served on garlic rye toast with fresh greens and salsa at $18.95.
The Haight-Ashbury is sliced tender turkey, ripe tomato, avocado and alfalfa sprouts with melted muenster on raisin pumpernickel covered with Russian dressing at $14.00. Summer Bries is smoked turkey with sliced apples, melted brie and alfalfa sprouts, served on raisin pumpernickel with Russian dressing $14.50. Virginia Slim Open is turkey and asparagus sandwich on whole wheat bread with Russian dressing covered with melted Jarlsberg at $13.50.
Nell Gwynne is pousse café of espressos on steaming espresso, with layers of whipped cream, semi-sweet chocolate, whipped cream, grated valley orange $6.00, Chicken Diva is sauteed chicken breast covered with cheese and a spicy tomato sauce served along with french fries $18.00, Mixed Grill is charbroiled Roumanian Steak, honey chicken, Cajun sausage with grilled sweet peppers and onions $22.00, The Catcher in the Rye is BLT with chicken layered with melted muenster on rye toast with Russian dressing at $14.00, Tiffany is piping hot espresso, with heavy shade of whipped cream and nonpareils at $6.00, Forbidden Broadway Sundae chocolate Blackout cake, ice cream, hot fudge topped with whipped cream $15.00, Cinnamon Fudge Sundae apple pie, caramel topping with whipped cream $15.00, Young Chicken Sandwich crisply sautéed in butter with almonds and served on toasted Irish Soda Bread $15.00
The creation of the World’s Largest Hot Chocolate was headed by Stephen Bruce S3’s owner and founder with ample help from S3’s kitchen staffers. The chocolate cup concoction follows S3’s traditional recipe only in a slightly amplified version. To be exact the World’s Largest Hot Chocolate uses twelve pounds of cocoa powder that was blended from fourteen different types of cocoa. It also uses eight quarts of heavy cream, and one pound of finely grated French chocolate.
The World’s Largest Hot Chocolate is available to any S3 patron to order. Stephen Bruce added the giant cup into the restaurants regular menu. The proceeds from ordering the World’s Largest Hot Chocolate go to New York City charities. The regular cup of chocolate costs about $6, the World’s Largest Hot Chocolate is about a hundred times bigger so you can do the math on how much the World’s Largest Hot Chocolate will cost you. A wild guess would be around $600, that still will not be the most pricey item in the menu of S3. The most expensive item in the menu would be the Golden Opulence Sundae laden with 23K edible-gold-leaf. The Golden Opulence Sundae is officially the world’s most expensive sundae at $1000. The sundae requires a 48 hours advance reservation.
On the downside, the World’s Largest Hot Chocolate has approximately 19,000 calories even before the whipped cream is added.
This article was written by Alexis.
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